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International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163
Issue 09, Volume 4 (September 2017) www.ijirae.com
SURVEY OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT USING

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSNS)
R.Sivaranjani
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology,
Hindusthan College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, India
Ranju_rs@yahoo.com
Dr.A.V.Senthil Kumar
Professor & Director, Department of Computer Application
Hindusthan College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, India
avsenthilkumar@yahoo.com
Manuscript History
Number: IJIRAE/RS/Vol.04/Issue09/JNAE10091
DOI: 10.26562/IJIRAE.2017.JNAE10091
Received: 22, May 2017
Final Correction: 30, August 2017
Final Accepted: 05, September 2017
Published: September 2017
Citation: Sivaranjani, R. & Kumar, A. (2017). SURVEY OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT USING WIRELESS
SENSOR NETWORKS (WSNS), IJIRAE:: International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering,
DOI: 10.26562/IJIRAE.2017.JNAE10091
Editor: Dr.A.Arul L.S, Chief Editor, IJIRAE, AM Publications, India
Copyright: 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License, Which Permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author
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Abstract: Using Wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) in health care system has yielded an amazing effort in recent
years. However, in most of those researches, tasks like detector processing, health state choices creating and
emergency messages causing are completed by a foreign server. Transmission and handing with an oversized scale
of knowledge from body sensors consume plenty of communication resource, bring a burden to the remote server
and delay the choice time and notification time. During this paper, we tend to gift a paradigm of a sensible
entranceway that we've enforced. This entranceway is associate degree interconnection and services management
platform particularly for WSN health care systems reception setting. By building a bridge between a WSN and public
communication networks, associate degreed being compatible with an aboard knowledge call system and a light-
weight info, our sensible entranceway system is enabled to form patients' health state choices in low-power and
affordable embedded system and find quicker time interval o the emergencies. Weve conjointly designed the
communication protocols between WSN, entranceway and remote servers. To boot LAN, Wi-Fi and GSM/GPRS
communication module are integrated into the sensible entranceway so as to report and send word info to care-
givers.
Keywords: Wireless sensor Networks, In-home patient monitoring, biosensors, wearable medical devices, smart
textiles, outdoor monitoring.
I. INTRODUCTION
Current health care systems area unit structured and optimized for reacting to crisis and managing unhealthiness
face new challenges: a speedily growing population of aged and rising health care payment. Restructuring aid
systems toward proactive managing of upbeat instead of unhealthiness, and specializing in bar and early detection
of malady emerge because the answers to those issues.
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Wearable systems for continuous health watching area unit a key technology in serving to the transition to
additional proactive and cheap aid. Recent technology advances in integration and miniaturization of physical
sensors, embedded microcontrollers and radio interfaces on one chip; wireless networking; and micro-fabrication
have enabled a replacement generation of wireless device networks appropriate for several applications as shown
in Fig. 1. Clever environments represent the next evolutionary improvement step in building, utilities, industrial,
home, shipboard, and transportation structures automation. Like every sentient organism, the smart environment
relies first and principal on sensory statistics from the real world. Sensory information comes from a couple of
sensors of different modalities in dispensed locations. Due to the numerous benefits of wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs), which consist of wide insurance, low price, low energy, self-configuration and actual-time information get
admission to; WSNs have been utilized in diverse regions along with military, herbal catastrophe prevention, natural
world tracking device and health care tracking. So that it will meet the first-rate of carrier (QoS) in special packages,
styles of communiqu protocols are needed to bridge WSNs with required networks. In this paper, we have
designed an efficient conversation protocols to bridge WSNs with public network (Ethernet, WI-Fi and GSM/GPRS)
to set up conversation among WSNs and faraway server.
Fig.1. WSN HealthCare Monitoring System

WSNs in fitness care machine which integrates Wi-Fi communications, health care and sensor community, have
attracted a number of studies efforts in current years [1][2][3]. A WSN health care gadget normally includes three
elements: body and home environment sensors network, get entry to gadgets along with a gateway and public
verbal exchange networks, and care-givers which include remote principal server, docs and loved ones. A situation
is shown in Fig. 1. Fundamental position of the gateway is to bridge the WSN with public conversation network.
Usually, sensor networks which can be well matched with IEEE 802.15.4 and run at the 868/916MHz or 2.4GHz ISM
frequency bands cannot talk immediately with public verbal exchange networks which perform on Ethernet, IEEE
802.eleven or GSM/GPRS networks. So gateway is needed to paintings as protocol translators, impedance matching
devices and fee converters among them.
Maximum of the beyond health care system research efforts had been focused on sensor networks design like
routing, MAC layout, and sensor nodes deployment. In the ones designs, sensor information are transmitted to far
flung server thru get right of entry to gadgets. Tasks like sensor facts garage, patients fitness states willpower, and
notifications are performed by means of a relevant server even as gateway handiest acts as an intermediate device.
The response put off includes community put off and significant server postpone. In health care machine, WSNs
offer a large quantity of real-time signals which should be processed in time. With the growth quantity of sufferers,
principal servers processing time will boom unexpectedly. The long distance statistics transmission may also
purpose issues, which include congestions and packet losses. With the advances in electronics technique, cutting-
edge embedded systems have an awful lot quicker processor and larger memory. This permits the gateway to have
the ability to finish a few greater complex works and to interconnect to exceptional varieties of public networks. To
resolve the troubles above, we've got designed a gateway-centered WSN health care system. In this gateway, a few
obligations are moved to the gateway to lessen the load of far off server and public network traffic. Frame sensor
community systems can help human beings through imparting healthcare offerings including scientific tracking,
reminiscence enhancement, scientific facts get right of entry to and communiqu with the healthcare provider in
emergency conditions through the SMS or GPRS [1, 2].
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Non-stop fitness tracking with wearable [3] or apparel-embedded transducers [4] and implantable body sensor
networks [5] will growth detection of emergency conditions in at hazard sufferers.
Fig 2. Health Care Monitoring System

No longer most effective the patient, but additionally their families will benefit from those. also, those systems offer
beneficial strategies to remotely gather and reveal the physiological signals without the need of interruption of the
patients everyday existence, as a consequence improving existence excellent [6,7].
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
Patient tracking structures to ensure security:
These days many authors proposed distinctive schemes for making sure safety in affected person monitoring
systems. Confidentiality is one of the troubles while storing affected person related statistics. In [9], Cipher textual
content coverage characteristic primarily based Encryption (CP-ABE) changed into proposed. The patient
information is encrypted and decrypted based totally on get right of entry to coverage. After encrypting facts, it can
be stored in a server. So every where we could download the copy of the records, however they get entry to policy
which became glad through the user can decrypt it. Right here unique algorithms have been used to generate keys,
encrypt the information and decrypt the facts. Dynamic integrity checking can be observed in [14] and more than
one mystery sharing was used to make sure confidentiality and dependability. Orthonormal vectors were used for
dynamic integrity checking. The main dreams are confidentiality, dynamic integrity assurance and dependability.
Protection troubles were taken into consideration in [10]. Secure and dependable disbursed information garage and
satisfactory-grained information get admission to control. Confidentiality, integrity and dependability are the
fundamental necessities of records storage. Confidentiality is accomplished by means of public key encryption,
integrity is completed through MAC (Message Authentication Code) schemes and dependability is performed by
mistakes correcting codes. To acquire get admission to control, SKC (Symmetric Key Cryptography) and % (Public
Key Cryptography) had been used. In SKC, every affected person has to know all of the legal users and encrypt his
very own facts with each person via pair smart key and it has several drawbacks. In p.c, characteristic primarily
based encryption is used. CP-ABE is the variant of ABE. The authors concluded that ABE primarily based schemes
had been suitable to make certain security. In [11], statistics storage scheme with dynamic integrity assurance was
proposed primarily based on secret sharing and erasure coding. The information integrity schemes had been based
totally at the precept of algebraic signatures. Right here the verification of records can be achieved without the need
for authentic facts. Those schemes had been secure and green against one of kind kinds of attacks.
Patient monitoring the usage of WSN
Wi-Fi Sensor network (WSN) is likewise used for in-domestic affected person monitoring. A allotted telemonitoring
device was proposed in [8]. It uses offerings layers over light physical devices (SYLPH) model. Its miles a carrier
oriented structure version. The objective of this version became those sources to be allotted amongst more than one
WSN and to execute over specific wireless devices independently.
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Numerous networks from unique wireless technology can also be related the usage of this version. In [6], Infrared
(IR) sensor based totally system changed into used. IR primarily based tracking machine changed into installed in
residence to collect movement values of the affected person and special function values like hobby degree, mobility
degree and non response level. To differentiate regular and unusual behaviors, aids Vector statistics Description
(SVDD) method become used. To categories the behavior styles, conduct sample classification set of rules changed
into used here. The want for a laptop changed into eliminated in [13].The WSN become installed domestic. Those
nodes are then connected to the hospital sever thru internet. Right here wide variety of sensors changed into used
to acquire simplest ECG alerts. The ECG signals had been first sampled and transmitted to the get admission to
factor placed in patients domestic. Then these alerts had been transmitted to the medical institution thru internet
and analyzed to locate heart related illnesses.
Patient person monitoring with the help of cell phones
Cell phone takes essential position in affected person monitoring to obtain system and transmit affected person
information. Health internet cell tracking became proposed in [7]. BSN (body Sensor community) embedded in
garments, acquire body parameters and communicates with affected persons mobile phone. Sensors and crucial
hub had been embedded in patients shirt. The essential indicators had been collected by way of the sensors and
transmit them to the primary hub. Imperative node then communicates with cell phone thru Bluetooth hyperlink.
Here confidentiality changed into done by using AES128 and authentication changed into achieved via SHA. A
unique Wearable Mobility tracking device (WMMS) changed into added in [2]. This model changed into mounted
primarily based on clever cell phone method. This machine is easily wearable on patients belt and it video display
units patients mobility and takes picture for the duration of any change of state. For evaluation, these photographs
had been used.
Patient person monitoring using Bluetooth enabled tool
Bluetooth enabled tool also used for in-domestic affected person tracking. A Bluetooth enabled in-home patient
monitoring system turned into proposed in [4] to stumble on Alzheimer ailment. Inside the affected persons home,
patient contains the Bluetooth enabled monitoring tool and a get right of entry to point is placed in each room then
all are linked to the nearby database. When a patient movements from one room to some other, the tracking device
selects any individual of the get entry to point with strongest sign strength. Once the relationship is hooked up the
contemporary region and movement of the affected person are traced and saved in a nearby database with the help
of Bluetooth conversation. The accrued location information and the corresponding timestamps are forwarded to
the selection engine that's placed within the health facility. This selection engine has motion reputation software, so
that the scientific practitioner can carry out far flung diagnosis to determine whether the affected person has
Alzheimers disease or not. A survey on information confidentiality in early detection of Alzheimers ailment
becomes proposed in [12].
III. WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK
A Wi-Fi sensor network (WSN) is a Wi-Fi network consisting of spatially disbursed self sufficient devices that use
sensors to reveal bodily or environmental situations.
Fig. 3 Structure of Gateway

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Those independent gadgets, or nodes, integrate with routers and a gateway to create a typical WSN system. Sensor
networks are the important thing to accumulating the records wanted via clever environments, whether or not in
homes, utilities, business, home, shipboard, transportation systems automation, or someplace else. Current terrorist
and guerrilla battle countermeasures require allotted networks of sensors that can be deployed and feature self-
organizing capabilities. In such packages, jogging wires or cabling is generally impractical. A sensor community is
needed this is rapid and clean to put in and maintain. The clever gateway is designed to permit WSN and public
conversation networks to get entry to every other with seamless internetworking. In this layout, the gateway
consists of important manage unit, database (DB), WSN module, WLAN AP, and GSM module, as shown in Fig. 3. The
distributed size nodes speak wirelessly to a crucial gateway, which provides a connection to the wired international
where the statistics can be gathering, process, analyze and gift your size facts. To extend distance and reliability in a
wireless sensor community, you could use routers to gain an additional communiqu hyperlink among quit nodes
and the gateway. The gateway consists of 3 external conversation modules (ECM): WSN Module, WLAN AP, and GSM
Module. WSN module, on one hand, is mainly used for receiving data applications from the sink of the WSN;
alternatively, it's far used to send commands to the WSN or unique sensor nodes. It implements the protocol
translation and affords the physical mechanism between gateway and WSN. On this design, a MIB520 USB Interface
Board attaching with the sink node in WSN is used as the WSN module. A GSM module is needed while sending SMS
to the care-givers using GSM networks, or sending facts to far flung server via GPRS if necessary. In this design, the
GT64 terminal of small length is chosen and it has low power intake [9]. GT64 is an intelligent GSM/GPRS manage
terminal which joints GSM networks with the 1800/1900 MHz RF bands. The conversation may be realized via SMS
over GSM or SMS over GPRS the use of well-known AT commands. With its intrinsic TCP/IP stack, GT64 enables the
gateway to get right of entry to to IP connections via GSM network. WLAN AP has two duties. First, which will hook
up with the internet, it acts as a consumer pc and accepts the IP cope with assigned by way of the internet server. 2d,
it sets up an advert-hoc network for care-givers and gadget maintainers a good way to connect to the clever gateway
with computer or PDA effortlessly.
IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper, a far flung fitness care system primarily based on Wi-Fi sensor community is delivered. This new
generation has ability to offer a wide range of blessings to sufferers, clinical employees, and society via continuous
monitoring inside the ambulatory setting, early detection of ordinary situations, supervised rehabilitation, and
capacity knowledge discovery via records mining of all collected information. This device may be placed in a
hospital or a affected persons residence, thru this wireless sensor community the sensor nodes acquire some
physiological indexes of the patients or screen the strolling state of the clinical devices and transmit the information
to the sink node or the local laptop.
The wireless sensor network can connect to the far flung crucial server via numerous manners. This far off health
care gadget has right scalability and excessive flexibility and may have an extensively software within the
community scientific carrier machine, care unit and so forth. An even larger, more broadly used remote scientific
carrier gadget may be built by connecting the wireless sensor networks to the net. This thinks its miles very
essential to serve the patients higher. Surely, a few types of special wireless sensor networks can be developed for
special clinical use to ideal the far off care system based on wireless sensor networks. The supplied gateway-
primary health care gadget is a prototype. Duties like sensor facts database, DDS and actual-time record are carried
out in a low strength embedded machine. Hardware and software design of the gateway are supplied and transmit
protocols are designed for this gateway-primary device. A sequence of test outcomes display this prototype machine
is possible and dependable. Inside the destiny, optimizing the interconnection via using GPRS verbal exchange
between gateway and far flung server to extend to be had insurance of the fitness care machine and upgrade the
DDS. Then, it could don't forget for integrating net-base website and voice name feature in the gateway. Protection
troubles will also be taken into consideration within the destiny paintings.
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International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163

Issue 09, Volume 4 (September 2017) www.ijirae.com

SURVEY OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT USING

Fig.1. WSN HealthCare Monitoring System

Fig 2. Health Care Monitoring System

Fig. 3 Structure of Gateway

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